Posted on 05/14/2015 5:20:02 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
RENO, Nev. — “Your brother created ISIS,” the young woman told Jeb Bush. And with that, Ivy Ziedrich, a 19-year-old college student, created the kind of confrontational moment here on Wednesday morning that presidential candidates dread.
Mr. Bush, the former governor of Florida, had just concluded a town-hall-style meeting when Ms. Ziedrich demanded to be heard. “Governor Bush,” she shouted as audience members asked him for his autograph. “Would you take a student question?”
Mr. Bush whirled around and looked at Ms. Ziedrich, who identified herself as a political science major and a college Democrat at the University of Nevada.
She had heard Mr. Bush argue, a few moments before, that America’s retreat from the Middle East under President Obama had contributed to the growing power of the Islamic State. She told the former governor that he was wrong, and made the case that blame lay with the decision by the administration of his brother George W. Bush to disband the Iraqi Army.
“It was when 30,000 individuals who were part of the Iraqi military were forced out — they had no employment, they had no income, and they were left with access to all of the same arms and weapons,” Ms. Ziedrich said.
She added: “Your brother created ISIS.”
Mr. Bush interjected. “All right. Is that a question?”
Ms. Ziedrich was not finished. “You don’t need to be pedantic to me, sir.”
“Pedantic? Wow,” Mr. Bush replied.
Then Ms. Ziedrich asked: “Why are you saying that ISIS was created by us not having a presence in the Middle East when it’s pointless wars where we send young American men to die for the idea of American exceptionalism? Why are you spouting nationalist rhetoric to get us involved in more wars?”
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She didn’t get the memo from Fidel Castro.
He said the Israeli Mossad intelligence agency created ISIS.
The stupid ... it burns.
“O” created ISIS, if ANYONE did.
We had not business leaving Iraq without a proper exit plan... I guess.
Of course her messiah had nothing to do with, Bush’s fault.
Pray America is waking
we had no buisness entering iraq also, muslims have been killing muslims since muhammed time and allowing muslims democracy is a dumb thing.
Muslims needs a dictator to keep them in check like saddam or sisi
Oh! Oh! Oh! She got to be a big-mouth, use some big words she barely understands, and she got to accuse Dubya of creating ISIS! Wow! She really had a big day!
The dumber they are, the louder they shout...and the prouder they are of their stupidity.
Ahhhh - to be 19 again and share all of my vast knowledge with the world at high decibels!
That is a popular opinion over at the (libertarian?) site Zero Hedge.
A fringe lunatic leftist political “science” major programmed by fringe lunatic liberal leftist “professors.”
This is why the MSM wants Jeb.
“Jeb’s brother created ISIS”
Three months of that and Hillary will have a 20 pt lead by Sept.
ahh that conspiracy theory, ive also seen nutjobs claiming that the leader of isis Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is a jewish mossad agent by the name of Simon Elliott
We had plenty of business in Iraq. One can appropriately argue with the way we went about it, but we had plenty of business going in there.
They were harboring terrorists. Can you deny that?
This is obvious to all of us but Jeb is demonstrated absolutely zero ability to handle questions on the fly. The answer here is simple. Well, Ms liberal, there’s been someone else in the office for over six years. He changed course in Iraq. Blaming someone who’s been retired for 5 years before ISIS even existed is probably missing the cause of the situation. The vacuum created by our absence is purely responsible. Al Qaeda and terror groups were at a low entering 2009. Now, that’s not the case.
and what muslim state is not ? and iraq was nowhere near the worst offender, saudi arabia and iran are way way worse in that matter
“Muslims needs a dictator to keep them in check...”
Perfect! I say, let’s send “O” and his tuna over there to do THAT, once they leave DC! :)
Leftards can’t fathom the idea of actually doing research... the truth tends to get in the way of a good narrative.
The ISIS was formed under a different name by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in 1998... the same year our embassies in Dar es Salaam and Nairobi were blown to pieces and more than 250 people killed. Bubba Clinton’s feckless response (the token Tomahawk strikes against the empty expanse around Khost, Afghanistan and the aspirin factor in Khartoum Sudan) likely encouraged Zarqawi, since no evidence existed the US was serious about combatting terrorism.
...or cursive.
I would love to hear Cruz’s response to this airhead...
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